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Diamant (Lask), Dora (Dora) b. March 4, 1898 d. August 15, 1952Actress and last love of Frank Kafka. She was born in Pabianice, Poland and died in England. In July 1923, she was a volunteer for the Berlin Jewish Peoples Homes vacation camp on the Baltic Sea when she met the writer Franz Kafka. After returning to Prague, Kafka moved to Berlin, and later to the sanatorium outside Vienna where he died in her arms on June 3, 1924. In the late 1920s, she studied theater at the Dumont Drama Academy in Dusseldorf and worked as a professional actress. In the 1930s...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)Cause of death: Kidney failureEast Ham Jewish Cemetery, East Ham, London Borough of Newham, Greater London, EnglandPlot: Section XC-15-1083

Kosminski (Kozminski), Aaron (Aron Mordke) b. September 11, 1865 d. March 24, 1919Crime Figure. He was a London Polish immigrant possibly identified as Jack the Ripper. Kosminski was a Polish Jew who emigrated to England from Poland in the 1880s and worked in Whitechapel in the East End of London, where the murders were committed in 1888. In 1891, he was put in an insane asylum. Police officials at the time of the murders named one of their suspects "Kosminski" (forename not given), and described him as a Polish Jew in an insane asylum. Almost a century after the final...[Read More]East Ham Jewish Cemetery, East Ham, London Borough of Newham, Greater London, EnglandPlot: Section G Row 14 Grave 12. Interred 27th March 1919

Lewis (Mendeloff), Ted (Gershon) 'Kid' b. October 24, 1894 d. October 20, 1970Hall of Fame Professional Boxer. He was the World Welterweight Champion (1915 to 1916 and 1917 to 1919). Lewis, along with American-born boxer Jack Britton yielded a historic rivalry (1915 to 1921) for which included 20 contests and the Welterweight Title exchanging hands four-times. Born Gershon Mendeloff, on London's East End into an impoverished Jewish family, he was already fighting as a professional by the time he reached the age of fifteen. He had secured both the British and European...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)East Ham Jewish Cemetery, East Ham, London Borough of Newham, Greater London, EnglandPlot: Grave A-7- 344